Publisher Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is a history of all the world’s peoples, a unified narrative of human life.
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“This was a great, intense book of how geography has helped shape human evolution and the diversity thereof. At times it can be rather dry & is overloaded with so much information, but it’s still an amazing book. Jared thoroughly ties it altogether in the epilogue. Likewise for the prologue, Jared poses a question (why humans evolved the way they did which resulted in how some cultures obtained eventual dominance over other cultures via the avenues of guns, germs & steel) and explains how he will answer that question throughout the chapters in his book. The answer, short & sweet (what I got out of it) was: geography. Location matters. Oh, one more note- you have to believe in evolution for any of his research to hold any water.”
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Stacey (4 out of 5 stars)
